Let there be SUNFADE.

[savageone]

I wanted to see some hot sunfade talk but alas there was none to be found here. Soooo, I guess I'll have to make a topic on it.

Here are the facts on sunfade:
Fact 1) Someway somehow there is somebody somewhere that doesn't consider sunfading to be some sort of damage. Something like that is perfectly normal some say, they might even sometimes say it can be somewhat charming.
Fact 2) 9 out of 10 moms agree, games from Japan are roughly 530% more likely to be sunfaded. This is obviously because Japan has dual suns.
Fact 3) As game packaging designs change, new and unique damages present themselves - but sunfade, sunfade never changes.

Well, that it's. Post up your most horrible sunfade pictures, sunfade horror stories, or sunfade facts.

(I was going to put up some sunfaded pictures myself but I think my most wretched examples are thoroughly buried, will look later. Maybe I'll just go buy one of the ~90 sunfaded Nintendo DS games at my local Gamestop, hoo hah!)

[zektor]

I have some sunfaded games and it pisses me off. Damn sun.

[Kitsune Sniper]

There's this moron at one of the flea markets I go to who has a ton of rare games... all sunfaded. Of course they're going to fade, they've been out in the sun for the past THREE YEARS because nobody buys 'em. They're too expensive.

Blarglefarg.

[norkusa]

I've got about 100 boxed NES games in my collection and the only one that's sunfaded is Flintstones Surprise at Dinosaur Peak. Makes me want to cry every time I look at it.

At least my Panesians are ok.

[Tupin]

Reminds me when Blockbuster used to rent GCN games but they put them directly in front of a huge window.

You could always tell what the new games were, though...

[Iron Draggon]

it's not always the sun's fault... fluorescent lights fade things just as bad or worse than the sun does... and most retail outlets have fluorescent lighting... I suspect that's why most games from Japan that suffer from fading are in the shape they're in... they've spent too many years under fluorescent light

[joshnickerson]

Stupid Lifegiving Sun!

[R.Sakai]

Of course, if you're a big fan of the later TG16 games, the the sunfading actually created MORE of the genre colors on the side of the cases. So, More fun for everyone!

[dgdgagdae]

Even incandescent lights can fade things. I can remember when I was young, I had bunk beds. For Xmas one year, I got a pair of pants that didn't fit. I put them on the top bunk and they were there for a few months. When I unfolded them, the part that was on top, being hit by the light on the ceiling, were a much lighter shade of blue than the rest.

[skaar]

Even incandescent lights can fade things. I can remember when I was young, I had bunk beds. For Xmas one year, I got a pair of pants that didn't fit. I put them on the top bunk and they were there for a few months. When I unfolded them, the part that was on top, being hit by the light on the ceiling, were a much lighter shade of blue than the rest.

Maybe that was the heat and the acid wash reacting.

I cackled at the dual suns comment. Brilliant.

[BHvrd]

Stupid Lifegiving Sun!

http://thumbnail.search.aolcdn.com/truveo/images/thumbnails/EE/B7/EEB76A25017B2B.jpg

[savageone]

Need more pictures, I know some of you guys have some really wretched sunfaded games in your collections.

Here's another sunfade FACT: The colors red and yellow are the first colors to go. It's a mystery as to why, but I think it's safe to assume that these colors had a falling out with the sun at some point.

[emceelokey]

I never understood the "sunfading" on the earier priduction runs of the SNES where only one panel would fade but the other would look perfectly fine. I always figured it had something to do with what the plastic was made out of and not actual sun or light fading. Everytime someone would say that it was do to the sun I would always think who the hell puts their SNES under direct sunlight. I figured it has something o do with oxygenating or something like that.

[SpaceHarrier]

This is why I usually block all the windows with tin foil. No sunfading problems here. Or alien thought-beams, either.

[Nebagram]

I've never really had a problem with sunfade, largely because living in England, I've never had much of a problem with the Sun full stop... :(

[Haoie]

Anyone know if CDs can be damaged by sun exposure?

[Spartacus]

This is probably the worst sunfaded game I have and it did come from Japan. Whenever I drag this game out, I'm always curiously puzzled by what could have spared the small area on the left of the box from fading. Perhaps a Famicom box was lying on top of it? The fading doesn't bother me because my SNES/Super Famicom collection has never been my primary focus. I had weighed it's imperfection against the modest price I paid and felt it was a fair exchange for a game too cool not to own.
I have 80 or so SFC games and haven't noticed fading to be any more prevelent among them than my SNES games.

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[Iron Draggon]

I never understood the "sunfading" on the earier priduction runs of the SNES where only one panel would fade but the other would look perfectly fine. I always figured it had something to do with what the plastic was made out of and not actual sun or light fading. Everytime someone would say that it was do to the sun I would always think who the hell puts their SNES under direct sunlight. I figured it has something o do with oxygenating or something like that.

I have a few SNES carts that are like that... half normal, half cornbread... fortunately only my SNES controller ports have turned to cornbread though

[rupert]

I'd agree on red going first, Yellow Out Run Ferrari..

http://www.smspower.org/scans/sms/scans/o/outrun3d-front2.jpg

[wallydawg]

I have a couple of 32x games with sunfaded spines, rbi baseball 95 and mortal kombat 2. I bought them off ebay, where of course you couldn't tell from the way the seller took the photo :l

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[Hitman Tyler]

Today at the flea market all of the PS2 games had sunfade. The guy only wanted $5.00 for each. None of games I have any sunfade, the only thing is that my some of my N64 games have what I call "rub fade". Meaning that my hands would always rub on the label,causing it to fade.

[thchardcore]

I bought a JP Marvel vs Capcom for Dreamcast like maybe 5 years back, the spine is faded to a really light orange almost like OJ, the rest of the game is fine. The funny part is, the white part of the spine actually turned yellow so when you look at it and then look at the other spine (where the case closes) it's just confusing. Game sucks on DC anyway, so nay.

:sob:

[savageone]

hah, that Out Run 3D is pretty funny. You should probably just put that on eBay as "Collector's edition" or "teh Rar3 ProtOz", this may be one case where sunfade could INCREASE the value of a game!

[Dreamc@sting]

I've always been picky on my games, so I really don't have many with sunfading , but the local flea market has a guy who sells his games out of bins sitting in the scorching sun of the parking lot, he doesn't take care of them at all, and its depressing because he has alot of rarities which frankly because of the condition I wouldn't buy. Normally if its the case and I want the game its fine, but seriously, we are talking sunfaded manuals and stickers on the cartridges with sunfading as well, this guy must give them all sunbaths or something

[AlphaGamer]

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